The Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) is a membership organization whose mission is to secure and maintain the human and civil rights of Americans of Japanese ancestry and others victimized by injustice. The JACL has 112 chapters nationwide and eight regional districts with over 24, 000 members found in twenty-three states. ...

National Japanese American Historical Society is a non-profit member supported organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture of the Japanese American experience.

The United States-Japan Foundation is committed to promoting stronger ties between Americans and Japanese by supporting projects that foster mutual knowledge and education, deepen understanding, create effective channels of communication, and address common concerns in an increasingly interdependent world. ...

A website of online Japanese American community resources - arts and culture, social services, public policy, news and issues, history, Little Tokyo Los Angeles, website directory, bulletin board, and just for fun.

Little Tokyo Service Center, LTSC. A nonprofit group in Los Angeles, serving the needs of the elderly, low income, non English speaking, disabled local community ...

Densho is a nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the initial goal of documenting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. This evolved into a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate and inspire action for equity. Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of ...

This project was supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian. 2000-2002 The Regents of the University of California http://jarda.cdlib.org/ ...

The NikkeiWest--Northern Califoria's only all English-language Japanese newspaper.

The Manjiro Society ...

A Short Chronology of Japanese American History Adapted from Japanese American History: An A-to-Z Reference from 1868 to the Present Edited by Brian Niiya (New York: Facts-on-File, 1993). May 17, 1868 The Scioto set sail out of Yokohama for Hawaii, carrying 153 Japanese migrants bound for employment on the sugar plantations. These adventurers constituted the first mass emigration of Japanese ...

The Black Moon, Art, Anime, and Japanese Culture.

Japanese Town ~*~ Nihonjin-Machi Welcome to the Japanese Town Archives. Before the 1906 earthquake, the majority of San Francisco's Japanese-American citizens lived either south of Market Street or in the Chinatown area. After the quake, Japanese Town, as it was called then, moved to the Fillmore district, occupying an area roughly bounded by California Street to the north, O'Farrell Street to ...